Early Life and Education in Florence Gucci Santi, the distinguished Italian architect and sculptor, was born around 1500 in Florence and died in 1576 in Mirów near Pińczów. He was also known by the name Florentino, while his surname appeared in historical documents with various spellings, including Guci and Guczy,

It was founded in Krakow in April 1908 by Wojciech Kossak. In her opinion, it was to prove to the world that apart from the art society, there are also other groups appointed to represent Polish painting in the universal movement. The first exhibition of the “Zero” Group was opened

The painter, born in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska in 1841, died in Kraków in 1922. He graduated from primary school in Kalwaria and Wadowice. He learned drawings himself, then at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1870, he received a government scholarship to travel to Vienna, where he studied drawing. He was

Bookseller, lover of old Krakow, collector. Born in 1783 in Kęty, died in 1868 in Kraków. In 1797 he moved from Kęty to Kraków and he stayed here. For 20 years he worked in Antoni Grobel’s bookshop, in 1818 he established his own bookstore and antiquarian bookstore on Grodzka Street

The painter, born in Drohobycz in 1856, died in Kraków in 1879, was the most talented of his brothers, who were all painting artists. In 1869 he studied at the studio of Michał Godlewski in Lviv, from 1871 he studied in Vienna, from 1874 at the Krakow School of Fine

Sculptor, grandson of the legionnaire and poet Cyprian, born in 1835 Mery sur Cher in France, died in Paris in 1909. Professor of sculpture at the St. Petersburg academy, from 1875 in Warsaw, from 1888 permanently in France. A member of the French National Academy, an officer of the French

Benedictine monk living at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries. It is unknown where he came from, and where he did his studies. Probably in 1111 Gall was at the court of Emperor Henry V, from there he traveled to Poland and began working in the office of

Poet, translator, born in 1905 in Warsaw and buried there in 1953. He studied classical and English philology. He collaborated with magazines such as “Cyrulik Warszawski” or “Prosto z mostu” and others. He spent the war in prisoner-of-war camps. He returned to Poland, to Krakow in 1946 and lived here

Sculptor born and died in Kraków. He studied at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, participant of the January Uprising. In the years 1876-1889 he taught sculpture at the SSP, but quit teaching due to eye disease. He died while already blind in the Helclów Institution. It

Musician, conductor, composer, born in Kraków in 1888, died in a plane crash near Piaseczno. A graduate of the Sobieski Gymnasium, he graduated in law at the Jagiellonian University and in medicine under the supervision of Żeleński and Nowowiejski. His whole family was very musical, he himself played the organ,